- #1 be you 2
97% matchVery Positive82% of 97 reviews2020
Dev: louis morel
Windows
be you 2 is an interactive visual novel. In this sequel to "be you", you must raise a child by making story choices. There are multiple routes and endings based on your offspring's personality.
Why similar: RPG 63.6%, Casual 36.4%
- #2 FREERIDE
96% matchVery Positive88% of 236 reviews2025
Dev: Flightyfelon Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair. In this highly-branching narrative adventure you'll only see about 1/3 of the full story in each playthrough, but the end is whenever you want it to be.
Why similar: RPG 50.5%, Adventure 32.8%, Indie 16.7%
- #3 Growing Up
96% matchVery Positive88% of 3,658 reviews2021
Dev: Vile Monarch
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?
Why similar: Simulation 33.1%, RPG 31.3%, Adventure 19%, Casual 16.7%
- #4 Your Adventure
95% matchVery Positive89% of 101 reviews2021
Dev: Zachary Fox
Windows
Create a custom character, and be whoever you want to be! Enjoy traversing strange worlds, and mastering action command combat as you fight strange and odd and weird enemies and bosses! Remember, this is your adventure!
Why similar: RPG 52.9%, Adventure 33.2%, Indie 14%
- #5 *NEW* SCUFFED EPIC VISUAL NOVEL
94% matchVery Positive87% of 67 reviews2021
Dev: Chris ShanazPub: shanaz game studios
Windows · Mac
This is *NEW* SCUFFED EPIC VISUAL NOVEL, which is a story set in the world of *NEW* SCUFFED EPIC BHOP SIMULATOR (#4 Best Selling free game of Steam November 2020), play as a character of your choice, as you run into some new, and familiar faces along the way.
Why similar: Casual 58.6%, Adventure 41.4%
- #6 non-binary
94% matchVery Positive94% of 298 reviews2022
Dev: owof games
Windows · Mac · Linux
"non-binary" is a video game that mixes text choices and bullet hell to tell the story of two non-binary people's journey of self-discovery. Make your choices. Dodge words. Go through things that hurt without breaking down. If you can.
Why similar: RPG 79.2%, Indie 20.8%
- #7 I Wanna Be A Game Dev!
93% matchVery Positive95% of 231 reviews2024
Dev: Lyko Studio
Windows · Mac
Live out your school days as you navigate the rocky world of game development! Can you make an amazing game, or will something get in the way?
Why similar: RPG 51.7%, Simulation 33.6%, Casual 14.7%
- #8 Refind Self: The Personality Test Game
91% matchVery Positive87% of 3,737 reviews2023
Dev: LizardryPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Games can really show someone's personality, don't you think? By way of a simple exploration-based adventure, this data-science game analyzes your actions to estimate your personality.
Why similar: Adventure 43.6%, Simulation 31.3%, Casual 25.2%
- #9 Monster Loves You!
92% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,197 reviews2013
Dev: Radial Games Corp
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Live the life of a Monster, from birth to elderhood and beyond, making decisions that affect the world of Monsters and Humans. Solve problems. Meet animals and interesting people. Get to know them. Eat them. Make your own story!
Why similar: Simulation 25.1%, RPG 24.1%, Casual 20%, Indie 16.1%, Adventure 14.7%
- #10 To Be or Not to Be
90% matchVery Positive89% of 8,166 reviews2022
Dev: Team KPub: DSGame
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
This is a text adventure game that combines the gameplay of desktop pets and mini-games. You can advance the plot by clicking on the dialogue, or play mini-games to accumulate values to trigger new plots, and you can also cultivate your favorite characters by hanging up.
Why similar: RPG 68%, Adventure 32%
- #11 Lily's Night Off
91% matchVery Positive99% of 114 reviews2018
Dev: Kyuppin
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lily's Night Off is a visual novel, but not in the typical sense; as you progress in this game, your actions drastically change character personalities, story lines, and lead to unexpected outcomes.
Why similar: Simulation 59.2%, Adventure 40.8%
- #12 16 Personalities Simulator
89% matchVery Positive87% of 54 reviews2026
Dev: DreamStep
Windows
本游戏是基于荣格心理学理论,以及现在时代的环境制作的测试分享交流游戏。游戏免费,没有任何内购要素,给您带来纯净的测试和分享体验。
Why similar: Simulation 61.1%, Casual 28.5%, Indie 10.4%
- #13 The NOexistenceN of you AND me
87% matchVery Positive93% of 21,072 reviews2024
Dev: 0x0Real StudioPub: Nino Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Why similar: RPG 38.2%, Adventure 31.3%, Indie 30.5%
- #14 Something Strange
89% matchPositive91% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Ethan ZimmerlePub: Mr. Hand
Windows
Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!
Why similar: Casual 51.5%, Adventure 26%, Indie 22.5%
- #15 i love me, i love me not
88% matchVery Positive95% of 85 reviews2022
Dev: MALGOW
Windows · Mac
a hand-drawn mental-health-focused game!
Why similar: Adventure 42.3%, Casual 38.1%, Indie 19.6%
- #16 Familiar Friends: What's Your Familiar?
85% matchVery Positive92% of 189 reviews2024
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
A cute and cozy Visual Novel experience with plenty of choices to make! Come find the Familiar truly meant for you by feeding The Conjuring Cauldron with a multitude of choices, all to a relaxing Original Soundtrack!
Why similar: Simulation 45.5%, RPG 39.1%, Casual 15.4%
- #17 Derealized
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: JacksonG13Pub: JacksonGameStudios
Windows
Derealized is a choice based game inspired by games such as The Stanley Parable and Undertale. This experience offers 10 different endings for you to explore! How many will you find?
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #18 Depression Quest
86% matchMixed61% of 3,934 reviews2014
Dev: The Quinnspiracy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 77.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #19 BatteryNote
83% matchVery Positive99% of 220 reviews2025
Dev: 72studioPub: room6
Windows · Mac
BatteryNote is a multi-ending sci-fi adventure visual novel game. You can recharge three robots with limited lifespans, bringing them back to life. Interact with them through conversations or experiment by applying high voltage. How they spend their final moments is entirely up to you.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #20 Fateweaver: Smash or Pass
84% matchVery Positive94% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: Simulation 51.4%, RPG 48.6%
- #21 Entropic Float: This World Will Decay And Disappear
84% matchPositive92% of 50 reviews2022
Dev: Nico HPub: Starfield Gaming
Windows · Mac
A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.
Why similar: Simulation 71.1%, Indie 28.9%
- #22 BAD END THEATER
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,804 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #23 My Therapy
81% matchVery Positive96% of 334 reviews2022
Dev: Suvorov Mikhail
Windows · Linux
A visual novel about cute melancholic girls!
Why similar: Simulation 53.1%, Casual 35.8%, Indie 11.1%
- #24 Summer Meetings
82% matchVery Positive92% of 59 reviews2019
Dev: Mikołaj Spychał
Windows · Mac · Linux
We meet many people in our lives. Relationships with them are different and can be changed.
Why similar: Adventure 37.4%, Casual 34%, Indie 28.7%
- #25 Birch Simulator
81% matchVery Positive93% of 103 reviews2023
Dev: Performance Artist
Windows
The main characters of modern games can be very different. Brave knights, brilliant scientists or superheroes saving entire worlds. This game offers you a more unusual experience. Here you can become a Birch.
Why similar: Simulation 37.6%, RPG 22.2%, Casual 22.2%, Adventure 18.1%
- #26 Crown Delights Deli
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 83 reviews2022
Dev: baconeggandcheese
Windows · Mac
Crown Delights Deli is a visual novel with multiple dialect/language choices. As the cashier at a Brooklyn bodega, choose to talk in English, AAVE, or Spanish to a diverse cast of characters as you try to maintain a five-star rating for your boss.
Why similar: Simulation 44.7%, Casual 32.4%, Indie 22.8%
- #27 Emily is Away
79% matchVery Positive89% of 32,286 reviews2015
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Why similar: Simulation 42.6%, Indie 27.3%, Casual 20.8%, Adventure 9.2%
- #28 Our Life: Beginnings & Always
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 13,605 reviews2020
Dev: GB Patch Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Why similar: Casual 51.5%, Indie 48.5%
- #29 Athenian Rhapsody: Thunder Goober's Personality Dungeon
79% matchVery Positive90% of 166 reviews2023
Dev: Nico PapaliaPub: Top Hat Studios, Inc.
Windows
Athenian Rhapsody: Thunder Goober's Personality Dungeon is a FREE dangerously goofy RPG with fast paced, unique combat and zany secrets and adventures. Your goal is to build your own rhapsody, the story of you - the player - an experience which cannot be replicated by others.
Why similar: RPG 58.9%, Adventure 41.1%
- #30 Mr. Rightaway
75% matchVery Positive98% of 474 reviews2024
Dev: 开水工作室Pub: NVLMaker
Windows
古风多结局乙女向文字冒险游戏,完全免费
Why similar: Adventure 42.5%, RPG 36.9%, Indie 20.7%
- #31 Awkward Valley
76% matchVery Positive91% of 91 reviews2025
Dev: GallbladderPub: Rue Valley Time Management Department
Windows
Welcome to Awkward Valley! Plan your day, tackle strange activities, and unlock bizarre new options as you go. Gym? Therapy? Vending machine snacks? It’s up to you! Featuring Awkward Yeti’s weird and wonderful characters in a totally normal town.
Why similar: Simulation 64.9%, Casual 35.1%
- #32 Guilt Free
77% matchVery Positive85% of 295 reviews2020
Dev: Lateral Games
Windows · Mac
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #33 Choose Wisely
78% matchMostly Positive70% of 132 reviews2018
Dev: ID Card
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This interactive adventure features no specific hero. YOU are the one who decides who makes it out alive - or not. Your actions determine the outcome of the story. In total there are 9 playable heroes and more than 50 different paths all featuring intense dialogues and thrilling events.
Why similar: RPG 32%, Simulation 29.5%, Adventure 23.3%, Indie 15.2%
- #34 Emily is Away <3
74% matchVery Positive91% of 6,727 reviews2021
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Emily <3 is a brand new story set on an old-new social media. Customize your facenook profile, send some friend requests and determine the outcome of your senior year.
Why similar: Simulation 32.8%, RPG 19.7%, Casual 16.8%, Indie 16.6%, Adventure 14%
- #35 奇天烈相談ダイヤル
75% matchVery Positive83% of 338 reviews2024
Dev: 法螺会
Windows · Mac
矛盾を見つけ、相談者の悩みを解決する怪異判定アドベンチャー
Why similar: Simulation 52%, Adventure 38.1%, Indie 9.9%
- #36 Survive In Russia
77% matchMixed65% of 57 reviews2020
Dev: Alexander Sablin
Windows · Mac
Survive in Russia is a survival quest in Russia. You will be available a selection of characters. Each of them presents survival mode and story mode. Only on your choice will depend on the life of the character.
Why similar: RPG 37.8%, Adventure 24.3%, Indie 19.7%, Casual 18.2%
- #37 Durka Simulator
73% matchVery Positive94% of 1,713 reviews2023
Dev: Xrisofor
Windows · Linux
"Durka Simulator" is a visual novel with humorous elements that takes place in an alternative reality in the Russian Federation.
Why similar: Adventure 38.1%, Simulation 31.9%, Indie 30%
- #38 Hydrangea
73% matchVery Positive93% of 136 reviews2024
Dev: Meiri Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A yandere psychological horror visual novel. Choose a sweetheart to romance, but beware the petals of obsession.
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #39 Dyscourse
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 444 reviews2015
Dev: Owlchemy Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dyscourse is an interactive choice-based narrative adventure game where you journey through a stylized world of choice and consequence. Choose wisely.
Why similar: Simulation 30.6%, Adventure 27.9%, Indie 21.5%, Casual 19.9%
- #40 Free Will
72% matchVery Positive97% of 357 reviews2024
Dev: Kipps In A BoxPub: Meowdy
Windows
Free Will is a 2D psychological puzzle RPG where the puzzles happen outside of the game. Dig deep into the system code to fix the corruption, and uncover information that might be better off hidden.
Why similar: RPG 68.5%, Indie 31.5%
- #41 //TODO: today
73% matchVery Positive93% of 426 reviews2021
Dev: Boys Laugh +
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel about figuring out life with the help of an AI. //TODO: today is a pastel colored slice-of-life story that let's you freely choose your pronouns and romantic preferences!
Why similar: Casual 33.9%, Adventure 33.8%, Indie 32.3%
- #42 A Game About
74% matchVery Positive90% of 889 reviews2018
Dev: byolivierb
Windows · Mac
A Game About is a free, short, lo-fi point & click adventure that tasks the player with living with their daily routine. Through day to day choices, life changes in imperceptibles and unexpected ways.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #43 YAMIKKO TROUBLEMAKER
71% matchVery Positive97% of 104 reviews2025
Dev: お湯めのPub: 半角全角感嘆符
Windows
A long-form, choice-driven psychological horror and depression game in which the protagonist’s ending changes based on the choices made by “you,” the voice he hears in his head.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #44 RGB GlitchGazer
70% matchVery Positive97% of 97 reviews2026
Dev: 群星闪耀时Pub: 群星闪耀时
Windows
A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk. Some paths may disturb you... or thrill you.
Why similar: Adventure 80.3%, Casual 19.7%
- #45 A Game About Boxes
71% matchVery Positive91% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: A Cardboard Box
Windows
"Boxes are the most wonderful things ever! Truly they are, didn’t you know?" A Game About Boxes is a quirky little adventure that shifts from minimalist aesthetics to uncanny atmospheres, all while you jump around, summon boxes, and slowly learn to love them. :) or else <3
Why similar: Adventure 63.5%, Indie 36.5%
- #46 I'm Pregnant at 16
69% matchVery Positive85% of 1,662 reviews2025
Dev: 1nstudio
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 47%
"I'm Pregnant at 16" is a visual novel about tough choices, growing up, and navigating relationships during an unexpected pregnancy. Personal stories and the consequences of decisions are balanced with awkward moments, chat messages, inner thoughts, and memes.
Why similar: RPG 60.5%, Casual 39.5%
- #47 A House Inside Me
70% matchVery Positive87% of 99 reviews2026
Dev: Ctrl HorrorPub: Skull Queens Games
Windows
A psychological horror experience told through environmental storytelling. Explore a house inhabited by trauma, denial, and fractured memories. Three endings. Multiple interpretations. This is the house that lives inside me.
Why similar: Adventure 41.9%, Simulation 38.1%, Indie 20%
- #48 Superstorm Melon Date
71% matchVery Positive91% of 74 reviews2021
Dev: A. Hagen
Windows · Mac
It's date night in the dystopian future. You're going out with Mel, a half-melon person with psychic powers. They seem a little weird, but at least they're cute. Choose where to go, what to do, and what to say in this highly interactive, romance visual novel.
Why similar: Simulation 54%, Indie 27.1%, Casual 19%
- #49 Choice of Life: Samosbor
68% matchVery Positive88% of 235 reviews2025
Dev: Blazing Planet Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
You're just a simple inhabitant of the endless Gigastructure. The best you'll get is seven shifts at a machine and a bowl of feed concentrate, and that for good service to the party.... Is that it? Or do you have a choice?
Why similar: RPG 39.7%, Simulation 36.6%, Casual 23.7%
- #50 The Test: Reality Check
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 646 reviews2025
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
The Test: Reality Check is one of multiple installments in an ongoing social experiment that can be classified as an atmospheric, psychological-simulation with horror elements. Dive deep into your own psyche to find answers to questions you've kept locked away, hidden from yourself for far too long.
Why similar: Simulation 41.4%, RPG 38.8%, Casual 19.8%
- #51 Emily is Away Too
68% matchVery Positive93% of 6,189 reviews2017
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.
Why similar: Simulation 35.3%, Indie 20.7%, RPG 18.3%, Casual 16.7%, Adventure 9.1%
- #52 恋爱猪脚饭
69% matchMixed48% of 428 reviews2025
Dev: likeyou游戏Pub: LoveStoryProject
Windows
This is a text adventure game, in which players will play the role of the male protagonist "Huang Xia" and achieve different endings by making choices in the game, realizing their own counterattack life on the construction site.
Why similar: RPG 42.1%, Simulation 28.6%, Casual 20%, Adventure 6.8%, Indie 2.4%
- #53 Fading Hearts
72% matchMixed65% of 192 reviews2014
Dev: Sakura River Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 188.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Your choices changes the GENRE of the story!Almost EVERY NPC LIES to you at some point in the game!Live a life of adventure or a normal life! A game with true choices!An interactive story/game where you play the role of Ryou, a seemingly normal high school student in the land of Sorayama.
Why similar: RPG 30.7%, Simulation 29.6%, Casual 23%, Adventure 9.7%, Indie 7.1%
- #54 By Moonlight
70% matchVery Positive89% of 121 reviews2019
Dev: SugarHyped
Windows · Mac
~ ~ A Comedic Mystery Visual Novel with Relationship Building ~ ~ Play as a paranormal investigator hired by the paranormal to investigate! Search for a headless horseman's missing head before the night is over.
Why similar: RPG 29.6%, Simulation 27.2%, Casual 24.4%, Indie 18.9%
- #55 UCOPIA
66% matchVery Positive97% of 115 reviews2025
Dev: YunTYB
Windows
This is a story about art, profit, and friendship.
Why similar: RPG 49.2%, Casual 25.8%, Indie 25%
- #56 A Traveler to unknown Thule
68% matchVery Positive91% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: komasukePub: Nostia
Windows · Mac
Adventure Game Traveling around Iceland
Why similar: Adventure 59.4%, Casual 40.6%
- #57 Forest Life
67% matchVery Positive93% of 72 reviews2023
Dev: 星辰重工Pub: B.I.G Technology Co., Limited
Windows
Players will play as five different characters and experience five environmental theme scenes relating to sustainable palm oil, orangutan conservation, rainforest protection, etc. Players need to make a variety of choices through their own understanding, and reach different story endings.
Why similar: RPG 69.9%, Casual 15.7%, Indie 14.4%
- #58 un/FRAGMENT.
66% matchVery Positive88% of 51 reviews2024
Dev: izakiko paradox
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short 10 minute visual novel about being a fragment in the universe and trying to find a way out of the ****.
Why similar: Adventure 74%, Indie 26%
- #59 The Use of Life
62% matchVery Positive91% of 796 reviews2025
Dev: だらねこげーむず/Daraneko GamesPub: PLAYISM
Windows
The Use of Life is a multi-ending adventure book style JRPG. The main character’s various attachments change in accordance with the choices the player makes, and the ending changes depending on “the use of life” you choose through your journey.
Why similar: RPG 51.3%, Adventure 27.7%, Indie 20.9%